Lakeland professor selected for seminar

Lakeland College professor of religion Karl Kuhn has been selected from a national pool of nominees to participate in a faculty seminar on the teaching of interfaith understanding.

The seminar is offered by the Council of Independent Colleges and Interfaith Youth Core, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Kuhn will join 25 other faculty members in the five-day Teaching Interfaith Understanding seminar from July 31-Aug. 4 at DePaul University in Chicago.

The program aims to broaden faculty members’ knowledge and strengthen their teaching of interfaith understanding, with the development of new courses and resources.

The seminar will be led Eboo Patel, founder and president of IFYC, a Chicago-based organization building the interfaith movement on college campuses; and Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College and former dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion at Duke University.

For more information visit www.cic.edu/TeachingInterfaith.

Locals graduate from Carthage

A pair of local students have graduated from Carthage College in Kenosha.

Nathaniel Prinsen, of Oostburg, earned a bachelor of arts degree in finance and accounting and graduated Cum Laude.

A total of 455 Carthage students have completed their studies during the spring.

UW-La Crosse announces dean’s list

Several local students have been named to the dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for the spring semester of the 2015-16 academic year, ending in May.

Qualification for the dean’s list is limited to students who have attained outstanding academic achievement. To be eligible students must have earned not less than a 3.5 semester grade point average and have carried a minimum of 12 credits.

Several Sheboygan County students recently earned dean’s or dean’s and provost’s list honors for the spring 2016 semester at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Dean’s list honors are given to those who have earned a GPA of 3.5 or above and Provost’s list honors are given to those who have earned a GPA of 3.8 or above on a 4.0 scale.

Making the dean’s and provost lists was Howards Grove’s Brianna Morgen and Sheboygan’s Jared Praise and Mai Yang.

From Sheboygan, Lindsay LeCount and Craig Parrish made the dean’s list.

Johnson graduates from Edgewood

Jeri Johnson, of Kiel, graduated from Edgewood College last month.

Johnson earned a master of science in organizational development.

North grad nets masters

Sheboygan North High School Class of 2005 member and 2009 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alexandria King has received her masters in international relations from Harvard University Extension School in Boston.

Locals make UW-Madison dean’s list

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has recognized students named to the dean’s list for the spring semester of the 2015-2016 academic year.

Students who achieve at a high level academically are recognized by the dean at the close of each semester. To be eligible students must complete a minimum of 12 graded degree credits in that semester. Each university school or college sets its own GPA requirements for students to be eligible to receive the distinction. Most call the honor “dean’s list” but some grant the “dean’s honor list” and “dean’s high honor list.”